What the heck are the Dodgers doing with Kemp?

[Gregg]

He is sitting for the third straight game. He is not a child this "time out" is just stupid.

If you don't want to play him trade him to the Cubs.

[Hornsby]

It's a defensive issue, Mattingly is playing the better defensive players until Kemp regains his "burst" in the outfield...

[whalewang]

Per Dylan Hernandez on May 8th, Mattingly: Puig has established himself in RF. Kemp playing well, when he's not in lineup, it's for him to take a day off.

I seriously don't understand why some of these morons even talk since they so often contradict themselves.

[whalewang]

"Matt Kemp will start working out in left field during the Dodgers upcoming homestand, Manager Don Mattingly said."

“We’re just feeling like giving him more time to really get healthy,” Mattingly said. “Not that he’s not healthy, but just to get all the way back. We feel it’s going to be best at this point to get work in left field, continue to work center, as he kind of gets back to 100% -- 100% where he was a couple years ago.”

source: http://www.latimes.com/sports/dodger...525-story.html

[Gregg]

He is not starting again tonight! That is 4 in a row. This is just crazy. Turning Kemp into a part time player is just nuts.

[Don Quixote]

I'm not a big fan of Ethier anymore, particularly as a center fielder, BUT if there's a problem with Kemp physically or mentally, the Dodgers aren't fielding such a bad outfield with him on the bench. Kemp needs to get himself in gear.

EDIT TO ADD: Rotoworld points out that Crawford really can't play anywhere but left field, and that a Crawford/Kemp platoon in left may not work because Kemp is hitting RHP better than lefties this year. So either Kemp in left is a short-term measure, or someone has to go. Could the Dodgers find someone willing to take all or part of Crawford's remaining contract (3 more years, $61.25 million, plus the rest of this year's $20.25 million)?

[Don Quixote]

Kemp (and Hanley) on the bench again tonight. They may have to put Kemp on the DL with a phantom injury if this keeps up. His ego must be badly bruised by now.

[fuhrdog]

Kemp (and Hanley) on the bench again tonight. They may have to put Kemp on the DL with a phantom injury if this keeps up. His ego must be badly bruised by now.

Looks like Hanley is back in the starting lineup tonight.

[joncarlos]

Apparently what they're doing is playing him in LF for the foreseeable future since Crawford has an ankle injury and is headed to the DL.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2077779-carl-crawford-injury-updates-on-dodgers-ofs-ankle-and-return